Daily Archives: 31 August 2007

“Overall circulation of the UK’s regional evening papers dropped by 5.6 per cent year-on-year from 2.95 million to 2.78 million in the first six months of this year. The regional dailies which describe themselves as mornings fared slightly better – down f

“The UK’s regional Sunday newspapers dropped circulation by an average of 5.2 per cent year-on-year in the first six months of this year.”

“Total circulation of the UK’s 420-odd paid-for weekly newspapers has declined fractionally year-on-year by 1.11 per cent.”

“While the U.S. online video advertising market is expected to surge 89% this year to $775 million, that will account for just 3.6% of overall Internet ad expenditures.”

“The idea is to create new forms of journalism with whatever tools we can, and if they don’t exist, create them too.”

“Did that require a Captial P programmer to do? No. Does every journalist in every news organization need to know how to do that? No. Was I trained to do that? No.”

“Algorithms are fast and can cover a lot more ground than individual human, but they lack a fundamental human gift — judgment.”

“The NS Annual Regional Press Survey, published today, shows the number of websites grew from 828 to 1102. The number of core regional newspaper titles went up slightly to 1303, while the number of stand-alone magazines and niche publications grew b

Nielsen Netratings US panel: “The data shows Mail Online with a US monthly audience of 4.137 million in July, marginally ahead of Guardian Unlimited, which had 4.131 million US users and is planning to launch a US-focused version of the site.

“That got me thinking: maybe what’s warranted is a moderated corrections wiki. Picture this: The kind of disclaimer notice Slesinsky proposed could appear on the story and link to a wiki page for that story.”

“Now my friend Kio Stark has come up with what seems like a nice, and more anthropologically correct version: Indigenous Content (which is to say ‘Created by the natives for themselves’.)”

“Flickr is back in the news this week with reports that it will add video. But we’re still loving the photo-sharing element: here’s a 100+ ways to get even more out of the popular photo site.”

“Newspapers have a greater chance of surviving the 21st century if they embrace bloggers, rely more heavily on readers to provide news coverage and abolish subscriber fees for use of online archive material.” – Cory Doctorow